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What word do you really love?

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READER: What's your favorite word?

Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): “Schadenfreude.” This word sums up why I love the German language. There’s no single-word equivalent in English. (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): I have lots of them. “Indubitably” is one. “Chatoyence” is another. Then of course there’s “paycheck.”

Richard Baker (author of Avenger): “Dovetail.” It’s

What’s the silliest thing you did for the sake of rebellion?

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READER: What's your silliest moment of rebellion?

Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): I fired BEFORE I saw the whites of their eyes. (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): Raced to the front of a classroom and imitated the teacher’s very bad vocal and vocabulary habits, knowing full well that the classroom door had a window in it and didn’t reach the floor, and

You’re singing karaoke—what song do you choose?

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READERS! What song do you choose?

Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): “Mi tradi quell’alma ingrata” from Don Giovanni. Hey, it could happen.  (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): Anything in the bass range, for crooners, that I can remember half the words to. I can sing, but I believe in being merciful, so I no longer do my Carol Channing “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best

What do you like that most people hate?

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Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): Brussels sprouts and Italian opera. (Friend Elaine)

Richard Baker (author of Avenger): Long, complicated, crunchy wargames. We used to play Advanced Third Reich and A World at War around the office every year or two. (Friend Richard)

Jak Koke (author of The Edge of Chaos): I like fixing computer problems. I like it when gasoline prices go up. (Friend Jak)

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Who is your favorite hero?

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Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): The shy, unassuming sort who steps up in crisis and does what he/she believes “any normal person would.” Except that most, of course, don’t.

Mark Sehestedt (author of The Fall of Highwatch): Again, just talking fictional . . . that’s quite a long list for me. But on the list you’ll find Frodo, Samwise, Gandalf, and Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings; Fiver and Hazel from Watership Down;

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What do you hate that most people like?

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Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): The Beatles.  (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): A lot of recent pop music, and almost all reality television shows. I base the “most people” on the perceived sales and spread of such things; I very much doubt that “most people” includes “most sane people.”

Richard Baker (author of Avenger): Basketball. I’m a huge baseball and football

What do you hate that most people like?

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Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): The Beatles.  (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): A lot of recent pop music, and almost all reality television shows. I base the “most people” on the perceived sales and spread of such things; I very much doubt that “most people” includes “most sane people.”

Richard Baker (author of Avenger): Basketball. I’m a huge baseball and football fan, but as far as I’m concerned there are no sports played between the end of the Superbowl and baseball’s Opening Day.

Intelligent or Happy?

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Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): Are they mutually exclusive? (Friend Elaine)

Philip Athans (author of A Reader’s Guide to R.A. Salvatore’s Legend of Drizzt): The older I get the more I come to know that the two are mutually exclusive. Intelligent. (Friend Philip)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): Happy, but I have to admit that having and using intelligence, and being in the company of those who do, is one